Dyalog '16 – Register now to join us in Glasgow
At Dyalog we always look forward to the annual user meeting and five days of professional interactions and networking. It gives us a chance to present what we have been working on, our plans for the immediate future and the longer term and, not least, it gives us a chance to hear about our users' achievements and to get their feedback on ours. We always return full of inspiration and valuable new ideas and we believe this to be true for the participants as well.
This year the user Meeting will take place October 9-13th 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel
Workshops
As usual, the User meeting will consist of a day of workshops on Sunday 9th and half a day of workshops on the afternoon of Thursday 13th. The workshops include introductions to and masterclasses in the use of Dyalog technologies by Dyalog associates and partners. Guest presenters this year include Stephen Taylor and Kai Jaeger, who will be presenting a workshop on best practices for application development and the upcoming "Dyalog CookBook", Romilly Cocking on Neural Networks/Machine Learning in APL, and Stephen Mansour who will teach us how to Tame Statistics with TamStat. The workshop programme is available at http://www.dyalog.com/user-meetings/dyalog16/programme.htm.
50th Anniversary
We are collaborating with the British APL Association to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first running APL system in 1966. We are dedicating a full day of the user meeting to the celebration – most of the Wednesday (followed by the programming contest ceremonies and the banquet) and some of Thursday morning. Invited speakers from both sides of the Atlantic will recall work on early implementations, timesharing systems, and applications that broke new ground and transformed industries. You can read more about our plans for the celebration here.
Road Maps, etc.
Monday and Tuesday will be normal user meeting days, with presentations of the latest Dyalog Road Map, reviews of new language features, progress on compilers, tools for cross platform developent, interfaces by the Dyalog team – and experience reports from users.
Registration is open now. An outline programme will be published before the early bird deadline on July 31st 2016, so keep an eye on the programme and remember to register before the deadline to take advantage of the 10% discount.
You can sign up for the celebration event separately. The celebration will be APL-dialect agnostic and we hope to welcome many APL and related language users who share our enthusiasm for array languages.
Looking forward to seeing you in Glasgow!